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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EORAOE HOLT, OE BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, AssiGNOR To wM. w. sEcoMBE, lOE NEW YORK OTTY.

HAN D-STAMP.

Specification forming part ofv Letters Patent N0. 38,864, dated J une 91863'.

To all whom tt may concern:

Beit knownthatl, HORACE HoL'r, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Y Hand-Stamp; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, referencevbeing had to the accompanying'. drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Fignrel is a sectional elevation of my improved stamp, the section being taken in the line x ai of Fig. 3. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the same, the Section being taken -in the line yy of Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is-a face view of the stamp.

' Similar letters of reference indicate correspending parts in the several figures.

The nature of this invention consists in having the transfer-ribbon, which passes over the face ofthe type, attached at its opposite ends to independent rollers or reels arranged between the type and handle of the instrument in a cylindrical case or tube inclosing the type, all as will be hereinafter fully explained.

To enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to fully understand and use the same, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

a represents a metallic cylindrical casev or tube provided at one end with a handle (shown by dotted lines in all the figures) of wood or other suitable material, and at the other end with a type-box, z, whichis let into the tube, iiush or nearly so, with the outer end thereof. The type-box z, which may be made of composition or metal of any kind,is provided with a cavity or cavities to receive the type t, and on two opposite sides has segments wat of its circumference taken olf to allow the transferribbon to pass between it and the cylindrical case.

s s' are rollers or reels, on which the trans fer-ribbon is wound, arranged within thecylindrical case between the type-box and handle ofthe instrument, and supported in a position parallel with ,eachother by their journals resting -inholes made in opposite sides of the cylindrical case. One of the journals of each roller protrudes some distance through the case a, and is provided on its outer end with a milled head or thumbpiece for turning'lhe rollers to shift the transfer-ribbon upon.the face of the, type.

l O is the transfer-ribbon, which in the accompanyi n g drawings is shown mostly wound on the roller or reel s', and passing'from it in the direction designated bythe arrows, down between the interior of-thecylindricalcase and the typebox, across the face of the type, thence up through the opposite side to reels.

'v c are spiral springs encompassing the shafts of the rollers s s and bearing at one end against the milled heads thereof and at the other against the cylindrical case. These springs serve to prevent the reels from turning too freely and to give the proper tension to the transfer-ribbon. The handle of the stamp being grasped with one hand the impression is given to any article it is desired to cancehmark, or date, either by a strong pressure of the type' upon tlhe article or by resting the type upon the article and striking upon the top of the handlewith the hand or with a mallet. The transfer-ribbon, being saturated with ink, gives color to the impression. When the impression becomes indistinct, in consequence of the printing'or transferring properties being abstracted from the ribbon, the roller or reel s is turned in the direction ofthe arrow, drawing the ribbon from the reel s and presentinga fresh surface to the face of the type.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The hand-stamp herein described and represented, consisting, essentially, of rollers or reels s s', transfer-ribbon O, type-box z, type t, and cylindrical metallic case or tube a, the whole combined and arranged in themanner and for the purposes specified.

HORACE HOLT.

Witnesses:

Mr rFoRD B. BURNETT, A. BLUME. 

